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Take an existing aircraft graveyard, add a little interior design, et voila, a wonderful home.
For the uber-rich, the plane could be maintained in flying order to facilitate future relocation, making it a sky yacht.
Military Boneyard
http://www.modern-r...com/ruins/boneyard/
I believe there are civilian ones too, full of 747s and the like. [marklar, Sep 09 2007]
sp: Eccentric
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/eccentric
unless of course you mean "crazy about accents" [k_sra, Sep 11 2007]
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They are doing this with old train cars. I believe it's in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, but can't find a link. I saw it on TV. I'll bun for inventive housing. + |
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It would be incredibly expensive to make a boneyard safe for habitation. You'd have to purge all the fuel tanks in all the planes, make sure the wiring is up to code so you don't burn the thing to cinders flipping on a light switch, make sure the landing gear isn't going to collapse out of nowhere (which means you'd have to jack all the planes up to inspect the gear, replace worn out parts, etc...). |
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Assuming once could make a boneyard safe for habitation, it would never go through because they keep the planes mothballed in the first place because they might be needed again in the future. |
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[21]
Pick a plane without landing gear, remove the fuel tanks and bypass all the existing wiring. |
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Ok... do you have any idea how to remove an aircraft fuel tank? Let's see, a C-130 has 2-4 external fuel tanks hanging under the wings held on by 4 gigantic core bolts each, 2 internal fuel tanks in each wing, including bladder type, and, depending on the model, a bowser tank inside the cargo compartment. KC-135s have even more fuel tanks, including some under the deck of the cargo compartment. Removing them is a highly specialized task, and is going to cost. |
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And trust me, you don't want to try to remove a fuel tank or bladder cell with fuel still in it, unless you want to relive the big bang. Finding someone capable of removing them at all is going to cost a small fortune. Finding someone to empty them in compliance with EPA regulations is going to cost more. |
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Which means this whole thing is only possible for the uber-rich, flying order or not. |
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Just pump the fuel tanks full of
something like polyisocyanate foam. As
the foam fills up every last square
centimetre of internal space in the
tanks, any remaining fuel will be forced
out, and into waiting receptacles. The
foam will provide perfect insulation
when it fully hardens. |
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No, they're not. You'd have to douse the entire yard in RoundUp to kill off the weeds, scrape the entire top 3 feet and dump it somewhere to get rid of the spilled aircraft fluids and make the soil arable, then cover it all in 3 feet of fresh soil and get grass growing there, and make it into a form of futuristic trailer park. Which would actually look really cool if you fixed up and cleaned/waxed all the planes, but it would be an all-rich neighborhood so I can't bun it. Sorry. |
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Some boneyards have mothballed aircraft. The one I linked had all the aircraft eventually dismantled and taken away for recycling, so the expensive and complicated tasks described by [21quest] were done (even removing big bolts). All I'm suggesting is that they leave the shell behind and possibly fill the undercarriage hydraulics with concrete. |
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"accentric" - designed by Accenture, maybe? |
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